I'm with you God

By Dan Barber

If God knows all, sees all, and is all wouldn't it make sense that all humans are inclusive with God?

One basis of physics deals with quantum physics where really smart people think that everything is made up of atoms and other matter that’s so small we can't see them… this small stuff is expected to behave or just be present in some mysterious way to serve a purpose.

This quantum phenomenon has been used by Hollywood to create some really cool Science Fiction television and film. On a long cancelled television program a fictional scientist accidentally finds a way to transport himself by altering the “small stuff” of quantum physics into the persona of another human being in a different time and place to affect some action to change history and to improve that person’s life. In a 1996 film with the title “Phenomenon” staring John Travolta explored the effects of someone with superhuman ability in understanding everything. Another recent movie titled “Lucy” that I recently added to my library also deals with knowledge and the feel of everything throughout time and the need for every living cell to survive.

So much has been blamed on religion recently that is wrong. Religion has never been the cause of war. However, it has been used by powerful people or politicians as an excuse to execute war. Evil people use religion as an excuse to butcher innocent people in an attempt to manipulate others. If we are all made up of the same stuff with God, wouldn't that butchery that is meant to manipulate us also influence God?

I have always viewed religion and a sort of guide in how to live and get along in society. The Ten Commandments have always been a pretty simple list to try to live by:

You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not make idols.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Honor your father and your mother.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet.

For the times, the Commandments as put down in stone by God made sense. I’m pretty sure God included the second Commandment because he did not want to be depicted as a Mountain Goat. But, I’m sure He is also just as angry at being depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling as a fierce looking old white man with long grey hair.

I don’t feel anyone has complete knowledge of all the important questions humans have been seeking since they first started using the organ located between their ears. I believed the importance of that organ, the brain, is proven because even if we lose one of our senses of sight, sound, smell, taste or touch, in most cases, we have a magical way of adapting to keep feeding our thinking organ’s insatiable appetite for knowledge. Perhaps our brain is an important part in the Gathering of Data (GOD) of everything to include our soul that will leave our body upon death and connect to GOD… if the data is worthy.

Emotion is a very powerful but overlooked sense that should be counted as the sixth sense. Emotion allows us to love or hate, which can drive a feeling of guilt and pain.

By trying to affix a collective guilt or pain on Americans today because of past crimes or bad actions some of our ancestors took against some of our other ancestors in history is a “low-brow” approach and could doom us to relive that history. No one alive today is responsible for what happened during the Crusades. Yes we can feel bad about the treatment our ancestors suffered, but we can also feel a great deal of pride that our ancestors took to overcome mistreatment and hardships to survive. I would encourage anyone searching out a cause and effect of today’s troubles on history, but don’t use it to place blame on America for those troubles.

I believe that every speck in the infinity of space and time had or will have some purpose.

Conscious thought is a mysterious and mystical thing that has infinite potential limited only by fear of the unknown.

The most important thing an American can do is to pay attention because we are all doomed if we put blind trust in our elected leaders to do the right thing.